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It feels good to be back. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ here in one map is how doug jones became a united states senator last night. this map does not show that alabama is a blue state. what this map actually shows is county by county, the democratic shift in voters in alabama from the 2016 presidential election to the senate special election that took place last night. so, the darker the blue color in each of these counties, the more

Here in one map is how doug jones became a united states senator last night. this map does not show that alabama is a blue state. what this map actually shows is county by county, the democratic shift in voters in alabama from the 2016 presidential election to the senate special election that took place last night. so, the darker the blue color in each of these counties, the more democratic the vote was last night compared to what it was in the trump/clinton election in 2016 every single county,...

Things were really going in doug jones direction, but it wasnt over yet. and in the 10:00 hour, at one point, joy reid and i were both on set with lawrence, as we were all watching those numbers come in, were commenting on what we understand those numbers mean, this is a very exciting culmination of the race. and we could see where things were going, right and were wondering when people are going to start making calls. we dont control that. were wondering what were going to hear. and we had two ...

And we had two things on screen simultaneously. did you see this last night? on the right side of the screen, we had steve kornacki in his patented khakis and his oxford shirt, right? he has this big red and blue touch screen map of alabama. and steve was sort of frantically and expertly refreshing that map in realtime, going county by county by county to process all the results as theyre coming in. so steve is a fixture now on the right side of the screen. were never taking him off-camera. lawr...